In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.

The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.